I never dewormed my flock and at this point I was just waiting for worms to appear. Yesterday was the day; I saw a white worm swimming like an eel inside a mucous poop my favorite hen just dropped.
So I treated my whole flock with Levamisole.
According to the instruction, I have to repeat...
I thought this was a joke, but it's been officially published....
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40693342/
https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2025/08/18/beneficial-bloodsucking-making-you-sick-in-the-name-of-public-health/
Who else talked about enhancing human race a few decades ago? Just...
This pullet laid her first egg on August 21, second on August 23, and then nothing. She's a very pretty pullet with no issues at all.
She was born on March 3.
What do you think? No hidden nests outside, I looked everywhere.
My favorite hen is almost done molting. This is her first molt (she's a little over 1 year old).
She hasn't molt her wing feathers yet. Will she molt them later or is she gonna keep her wing feathers for another year?
Her sister is also molting, and she hasn't got new wing feathers either.
As title say, if you hatched some mixed breeds that look somehow weird or odd, or something that you don't see everywhere, post a picture here!
Rules:
- only birds with adult feathering
- no pure breeds
- has to be a bird - any bird -
Here is my oddball Kiwi. Rumpless, with both beard and...
My serial broody Peach had a daughter this March, Kiwi. Kiwi is 5 months old now, laid 15 eggs and now she's broody lol. What is the youngest broody you ever had? Did I set a record?
So my serial broody Peach decided to sit for the 3rd time this season.
She is a freaky unbreakable broody machine that lays for a month, sits for a month, and wean the chicks in a month, rinse and repeat.
So this time I'm gonna do my first hatch a long!
The eggs should hatch on August 15...
I hatched 6 cockerels on my last batch. My plan was to invite them to dinner at 3 months old.
They are 2 bantams and 4 dual purpose. The 2 bantams decided to fight to the death today, which I didn't even realize because the fight was completely silent and they were fighting under some large...
Today Little Hen laid an egg as weird as herself. In the middle of the lawn obviously. Nothing to worry about. She's just all weird. Show me a picture of your weirdest/ugliest eggs!
Just stumbled into this article and thought it was worth sharing. Warning, graphic necropsies.
https://nexusacademicpublishers.com/table_contents_detail/4/428/html
I sense boy vibes here finally!
All that white with orange shoulders.
Salmon faverolle Easter egger x CL.
2.5 weeks old.
This is my third hatch trying to get a male from this crossing.
I watched a thread that I wanted to read later that day, but nobody replied and it's now lost who knows where. Is there a way to see all my watched threads so I can figure out what it was? Thanks!
So my broody hatched 100% pullets last year and this year I'm expecting math to run its course.
These chicks are:
2 Legbar x duckwing araucana ee
2 Legbar x salmon faverolle ee
You can tell by the comb which is which.
I have a feeling they're all males. What do you think?
Anyone wants to do a color guess of these 2 chicks in the center? Father is cream legbar, mother is the salmon EE in the pic.
Don't mind the 2 dark ones. Their mother is golden duckwing so nothing exciting.
My pet pigeon is over 15 years old and he's reaching the end. He has congestive heart failure and he's developed a paralysis on his legs.
I believe he's having difficulties eating his pigeon feed. I don't think chickstarter can make him much worse than how he already is, but just to be on the...
This happened a few weeks ago but maybe it's worth sharing.
I started my flock with 2 adult birds and then hatched everything else. I never added adult birds to my flock.
One of the 10 months old pullets started sneezing one evening.
- The next morning she had lack of appetite and didn't run...